Now Doeg, the Edomite, the chief of Saul's herdsmen, was there that day.
From the Edomite thou shalt not turn away; he is thy brother?
Ben Ezra doeth not well to keep faith with a Roman or an Edomite.
Possibly in this period of conquest Bozrah became tributary to Moab, without ceasing to be an Edomite city.
Was it here that King Amaziah destroyed his Edomite prisoners after his victory in the “valley of salt?”
It should be added, however, that the Edomite names and other evidence point to the cult of other gods, viz.
Thou shalt not abhor the Edomite, because he is thy brother: nor the Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land.
But he found one man whose name was Doeg, an Edomite, who was willing to obey the king.
And Doeg, the Edomite, killed eighty-five men who wore the priestly garments.
One of the Edomite kings had built a new capital on an eminence of Mount Seir.
